I have an older HP laptop that came with Vista. Instead of installing Win8, I installed Ubuntu as an application where it prompts for Windows or Ubuntu during the boot process.
Well, Windows has not been booting for a year... I think it was crushed by a virus.
I had a very hard time to dual boot install Ubuntu 12.04
Apparently, Ubuntu has restriction of 4 partitions and I already had 4, so it just couldn't recognise my partitions. This was something I realised too late, but finally got to install Ubuntu.
Now, even though Windows 7 option is listed when I try to boot my laptop, it doesn't really let me boot and just loops back to begin.
I've been trying to help a friend reinstall Windows XP after she decided she wasn't ready for Ubuntu, but when I boot her Lenovo T61p from the Windows XP install disk, it complains that there is no hard drive. But the hard drive is fine, and will still boot Ubuntu.
I recently tried to install Ubuntu on my new Lenovo V570, planning to dual boot 11.10 with Windows 7. I realized after installing that it would boot straight into Windows, so I looked up the issue. I read something about UEFI, and found a page suggesting that I wipe the drive with GParted, installing a msdos partition table, and then install Ubuntu.
Hi guys,
So I was looking into how to install Windows 7 from an external USB hard drive. I found a few different programs that allow you to do this by extracting the Windows 7 image file to the external hard drive in such a way that when you boot the computer up, it will boot from the external hard drive and bring you to the Windows 7 installation process.
I'm having trouble installing Ubuntu. I've installed 8.10 before as a dual boot on my machine (Windows XP3) on a 120Gb USB hard disk. My system is set up as : First Hard drive, partitioned to give C: (on which I put Windows XP) D: all my data. 2nd Hard drive: E: a 120Gb usb hard drive, partitioned half and half to give space for backups and for Ubuntu.
Hi,
I recently purchased a new hard drive for my system, I will give you a quick explanation of that
sda - Old 1TB drive, MBR, houses my Windows 7 install
sdb - New 2TB drive, GPT houses Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu installs to my new drive no problem, but I can't boot into Windows, I get a "EFI File Path not valid".
Ok so heres what i want to do i have a amd laptop with two hard drives 1 is 500gb the other is 250gb, I want to install ubuntu on the 250gb drive currently the drive is empty the 500gb drive is my windows 7 main i dont want it touched in the installation now ive read other threads about dual booting 2 drives but they dont give clear answers for me to take the risk.
I used a usb drive to install ubuntu with windows and had several problems installing it. I broken windows somehow then just installed ubuntu over windows but now i can't find/use my internal hard drive plus ubuntu won't boot without my usb drive. Is there anyway i can get ubuntu onto the internal hard drive and also find/use it?
Laptop:HP Pavilion g6
CPU:AMD a6 quad
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